September
24, 26 October
1, 3, 8, 10, 15
8
p.m.
Original
Version Films
INGRESSO
LIBERO Free
Entrance
(according to seating availability)
Associazione
Italo Americana FVG / American Corner Trieste
P. S. Antonio Nuovo, 6, Trieste
040 63 03 01
Giulia Iannuzzi,
post-doc, will introduce
each film and give some literary background.
PROGRAM
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m.
September 24, 2013
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
September 26, 2013
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
October 1, 2013
The Twilight Zone (1959-60) - 3 episodes
Time Enough At Last
What You Need
People Are Alike All Over
October 3, 2013
The Last Man on Earth(1964)
October 8, 2013
Star Trek (1966) - 2 episodes
The Naked Time
Arena
October 10, 2013
The Stepford Wives (1975)
October 15, 2013
The Fury (1978)
1) 24 September - Invasion
of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, 1956, USA, 80 min.
Adaptation of Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers (novel
1955). Starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. Screenplay by Daniel
Mainwaring.
Alien invaders in a small town in California replace
human beings with duplicates that appear physically identical but are devoid of
any real emotion.
2) 26 September - The
Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold, 1957, USA, 81 min.
Adaptation of Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man
(novel, 1956). Starring Grant Williams and Randy Stuart, screenplay by Richard
Matheson.
During a vacation on a boat, Scott Carey gets in touch
with a strange cloud and the next day he starts shrinking. When he discovers
the strange phenomenon a few weeks later, there's nothing doctors can do.
3) 1 October - The
Twilight Zone, TV series (first series: 1959-1964), created by Rod
Serling, USA.
- Time Enough at Last, adaptation
of the short story by Lyn Venable (If: Worlds of Science Fiction,
January 1953), 25 min. Henry Bemis is an avid bookworm, but work and his wife
keep him from having the time to read.
- What you need, based on the
short story What you need by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner
and C. L. Moore; Astounding Science Fiction, October 1945), 25 min.
Peddott has the incredible ability to give people exactly what they need before
they need it.
- People Are Alike All Over,
based on Paul W. Fairman's Brothers Beyond the Void (Fantastic
Adventures, March 1952), 25 min. Two astronauts are headed to Mars. One
dies and the other receives an enthusiastic welcome by a civilization that
seems very similar to the human's. The original pilot of Star Trek (1965), has a similar plot.
4) 3 October - The
Last Man on Earth, directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, 1964,
USA-Italia.
Adaptation of Richard Matheson I Am Legend
(novel, 1954). Starring Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo
Rossi-Stuart; screenplay by Furio M. Monetti, Ubaldo Ragona, William Leicester,
Richard Matheson (as Logan Swanson).
The first film version of Matheson's I Am Legend.
In a post-apocalyptic setting, humans are infected by an unknown virus, that
transforms them into vampires. Filmed in
a striking Rome,with the great Vincent Price.
5) 8 October - Star
Trek, TV series (first series 1966–1969), created by Gene Roddenberry,
USA.
- The Naked Time (50 min.): adapted as a short
story by James Blish, in Star Trek (1967). Orbiting planet Psi 2000, a strange
affliction infects the starship Enterprise crew, destroying their inhibitions.
- Arena (50 min.): adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s
short story Arena (1944) (teleplay by Gene L. Coon). Captain Kirk from
the Federation starship Enterprise battles an alien captain who destroyed a
Federation outpost.
6) 10 October - The
Stepford Wives, directed by Bryan Forbes, 1975, USA, 115 min. Adaptation of Ira Levin's The Stepford
Wives (novel, 1972). Starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter
Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise; screenplay by William Goldman.
Joanna moves to the idyllic Connecticut suburb of
Stepford, with beautiful housework obsessed housewives and an odd Men’s
Club. An example of sci-fi engaged in
gender and political themes.
7) 15 October - The
Fury, directed by Brian De Palma, 1978, USA, 118 min. Adaptation of John Lee Farris' Fury
(novel, 1976). Starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Amy
Irving, Charles Durning and Andrew Stevens; screenplay by John Lee Farris.
Both science fiction and thriller, The Fury is
a gripping example of the classic psychic powers theme. The young protagonists
are dragged into an obscure research project about the weapon potential of
supernatural power.
